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SUBMITTER: Motriuk-Smith D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3157313 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Motriuk-Smith Dagmara D Seville R Scott RS Quealy Leah L Oliver Clinton E CE
The Journal of parasitology 20101108 2
The taxonomy of the coccidia has historically been morphologically based. The purpose of this study was to establish if conspecificity of isolates of Eimeria callospermophili from 4 ground-dwelling squirrel hosts (Rodentia: Sciuridae) is supported by comparison of rDNA sequence data and to examine how this species relates to eimerian species from other sciurid hosts. Eimeria callospermophili was isolated from 4 wild-caught hosts, i.e., Urocitellus elegans, Cynomys leucurus, Marmota flaviventris ...[more]